Everything posted by SpyCar

It is a critical part of the whole affair because without the BS cult sabotaging the Democratic Party in conjunction with the Russian "specialists," Donald J Trump would not be the president today.
TheRussians DID NOT help "anyone" who ran against HRC. They DID NOT help Jim Webb, nor did they help Martin O'Malley.
They were all in on BS.
You can't help yourself from spouting lies even with Robert Mueller has you dead to right.
Bill

Trump is definitely a populist. He's a rightwing populist. Populism is the ugliest and most bloodsoaked political position in the history of human civilization in both its rightwing and leftwing variants.
Populism is a pox on humanity.
Bill

Correct. Trump is more of a nationalist-fascist that is typical among American conservatives currently. There was a large segment of America Firsters in the 1930s and "Know-Nothings" in the 1850s who were proto-Trumpists.
His is a curious mix of nationalism and isolationism. Not a unique phenomenon in American history, but still an odd ideology.
Bill

Both extremes play this game. Both extremes have more in common with each other than they do with rational fair-minded people in what we might call (for lack of a better word) the political center.
Populism and demagoguery are tools of the political extremes.
I soundly reject both.
Bill

Nazism wan't anti-capitalist. Industrialists were not stripped of their property for not being party members. Your premise is false.
The NAZIs were anti-socialist/anti-Marxist.
Nazism is a far-right ideology. Arguing otherwise is koo-koo-lulu.
Bill

Your premise is flawed. The NAZIs didn't collectivize the economy. The economy and major industries remained in private hands.
Fascism and its NAZI variant are purely rightwing movements. The current attempt to re-write history is beyond contempt and intellectually bankrupt.
Bill

I hope that a good word from me doesn't cause you to doubt your choice, but congratulations on your decision.
If we hoped to elect a brilliant mind with genuine plans and a progressive clean capitalist perspective it would be Elizabeth Warren. I love and admire her. If you really, it was my strong hope that HRC would pick Warren as her VP. Anyway.
My concern about Warren is her electability, especially in a match with Trump in the Electoral College. I hate the odds and my belief is that for the future of this country that Donald J Trump has got to go. Or we watch this country regress to a once unimaginable degree.
I understand not every fired up progressive is going to ecstatic about Joe Biden. But Joe is a good guy, very human, and real. He beats Trump in the Electoral College. People like Joe Biden.
I think we have a slew of candidates who'd win a popular vote. Biden is the one I see who wins the Electoral College. WI, MI, and PA. Plus AZ. Many other states in play.
I respect supporting Elizabeth Warren. Should she win the nomination I will work my ass off to elect her. If she doesn't get the nomination I know she will give her wholehearted support to our eventual nominee.
As to it "reflecting well" on Bernie that he did not oppose a union for his own employees one needs to look at the context. There was widespread complains from female staffers of sexual harassment in the campaign. Female staffers getting roomed with male campaign operatives on the road with lots of issues. Not to mention gender-based pay inequality.
Never in history have the campaign workers who support a candidate felt compelled to form a union to protect themselves from "management."
Then, after the abuse and harassment lit the news. BS stepped in it by saying something like "I was pretty busy at the time" when asked why he wasn't on top of the situation.
Then he hires a guy who is prohibited by the terms of his release from being involved in union activities because he stole stealing union funds as the guy in charge of the union problem.
I don't think BS deserves any credit for being the first candidate who's staff unioned against him. Under different circumstances--one not driven my grievances, but by labor solidarity--I applaud him. But he had no choice here. His campaign would have crashed worse than it has already if he was at the center of opposing victims of sexual harassment.
What I find galling is that BS has attempted to fundraise and spin the unionization as if he did some beneficent act from the goodness of his heart. He's challenged other campaigns to follow his pro-union lead. What chutzpah!
Congratulations again on your decision to back Warren. Better judgment, actual plans, way smarter, better character, more effective, and more principled. Liz is a gem.
Bill

Charles Rocha’s terms of release forbid his own involvement any union activities.
BS has placed this convicted felony n charge of dealing with his campaign’s union problems. If this isn’t illegal, it is certainly stupid.
BS is a lot like Trump. “All the best people.”
You guys excuse anything. Not surprising.
i wonder how the women in the BS campaign staff who felt compelled to unionize to protect themselves from rampant sexual harassment and gender-based pay descrimination feel about BS hiring a convicted felon who stole from his union—and who is forbidden from union activities—being Bernie’s goon?
Bill

Baloney. I criticize people, like you, who enable Trump.
People who "claim" to be liberals, but who vote in Republican Senators. People who spend all their time, energy, and (in your case) money trying to tear down America's liberal party.
You are a Trump-enabling a-hole.
My "narrow" understanding of what a "liberal" is certainly does not include people who advance a socialist revolution with a cult-of-personality demagogue who is a dictator in waiting.
Authoritarianism/totalitarianism isn't remotely "liberal."
You far-left fringe extremists have far more in common with the far-right nutters who you help to gain power.
It is hard to tell if you are stupid, foolish, or simply evil. Perhaps it is all three?
Bill